Saint Madeleine Sophie Barat stated that she would have founded the Society of the Sacred Heart for the “sake of a single child.” This commitment is at the heart of our mission. Committed to the well-being and safety of all children, the United States – Canada Province strongly opposes the separation and detainment of children…
Carol Bialock, RSCJ, is not a traditional nun. She is a poet, an activist and a student of Sufism, and she has spent her life deeply devoted to those in need. And now she is a published author as well, seeing her vivid book of poems, Coral Castles, released by Fernwood Press on her 90th…
Being Artisans of Hope in Our Blessed and Broken World is an attempt to collate and articulate the insights and intuitions discerned by the delegates of the 2018 International Justice, Peace, and Integrity of Creation (JPIC) meeting of the Society of the Sacred Heart. Inspired by the Society’s strong Sacred Heart heritage of commitment to justice…
This document, Being Artisans of Hope in Our Blessed and Broken World, is an attempt to collate and articulate the insights and intuitions discerned by the delegates of the 2018 International Justice, Peace, and Integrity of Creation (JPIC) meeting of the Society of the Sacred Heart. Inspired by the Society’s strong Sacred Heart heritage of…
Come celebrate with us the memories on Bayou Road as we give thanks for sharing in our ministry of hospitality and transformation. Monday, August 5, 2019 Duchesne House 2545 Bayou Road New Orleans, LA 70119 Schedule of Events Food and drinks: 5 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.Recognitions: 6:30 p.m.Closing: 7 p.m. Please RSVP: 504-325-5665 or duchesnehouse@rscj.org
In April 2019, students and educators from Network of Sacred Heart schools gathered at Woodlands Academy in Lake Forest, Illinois, for an intensive dialogue training with the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change. Learn more about the experience in the video below.
Sharon Karam, RSCJ, received the Woman of Conscience Award at the 42nd annual AASH (Associated Alumnae and Alumni of the Sacred Heart) National Conference, held in New Orleans, April 26–27. The following remarks, presented by Jan Dunn, RSCJ, illuminate the love and heart Sister Karam so graciously gives to those she encounters. “Sharon Karam is…
This past March, Irma Dillard, RSCJ, joined the faculty, staff and students at Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart for their “Social Action Day.” Social Action Day focused on examining racism in light of the Chapter Calls, the work that the Society has done to explore and address its past with slavery, and what…
This past March, the United Nations (U.N.) Headquarters in New York hosted the 63rd Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), bringing together more than 5,000 delegates from around the world, including several RSCJ from the United States – Canada Province. Sheila Smith, RSCJ, the international Society of the Sacred Heart’s U.N.-NGO (nongovernmental organization) representative,…
Driven by the Sacred Heart mission, at age 82, Rose Quilter, RSCJ, continues to be a lifelong learner who seeks to serve as a conduit of empowerment for those on the margins as she listens to the voices of immigrant families living in Texas on the United States-Mexico border. The groundwork “It’s been such an…
Duchesne House for Volunteers in New Orleans, Louisiana, a ministry of the Society of the Sacred Heart, United States – Canada Province, will close at the end of August 2019. Duchesne House opened in 2007 as a response to the needs of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Religious of the Sacred Heart have staffed the…
Since 2010, community life director Clare Pratt, RSCJ, has been the backbone of the Oakwood Community in Atherton, California. Oakwood is one of the Society of the Sacred Heart’s eldercare communities. On March 1, Sister Pratt stepped down as community life director and Sally Rude, RSCJ, took the reins! After nine plus years as the…
Betty Nakato, RSCJ, and Joan Gannon, RSCJ, were among those featured in a social media campaign celebrating the myriad ways women religious and their supporters stand up for social justice in our communities. The “Stand With Sisters” campaign ran during National Catholic Sisters Week (March 8-14) and continued throughout the remainder of the month. Ministries…
Betty Nakato, RSCJ, and Joan Gannon, RSCJ, were among those featured in a social media campaign celebrating the myriad ways women religious and their supporters stand up for social justice in our communities. The “Stand With Sisters” campaign ran during National Catholic Sisters Week (March 8-14) and continued throughout the remainder of the month. Ministries…
Join us, this March, in honor of National Catholic Sisters Week (March 8-14), in celebrating the myriad ways women religious and their supporters stand up for social justice in our communities. More on the #StandWithSisters Campaign More on National Catholic Sisters Week
We invite all to view parts of the Bicentennial Closing Mass, which took place at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis in St. Louis, Missouri, on November 18, 2018. Bicentennial Closing Mass | November 18, 2018 | Opening Procession Bicentennial Closing Mass | November 18, 2018 | Readings Bicentennial Closing Mass | November 18, 2018…
At the 2016 General Chapter, the international Society of the Sacred Heart reaffirmed its commitment: “To revitalize our unity in diversity and to act as one Body, dynamic, interconnected, linked with other bodies, in the world and as Church, in order to share, collaborate, and be in solidarity among ourselves and with others.” (19) In…
As a member of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), the Society of the Sacred Heart echoes and affirms the statement released by LCWR on sexual abuse by Catholic sisters. [Silver Spring, MD] The Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) recognizes that there have been incidents where Catholic sisters have sexually abused persons entrusted…
Our experience at the vocation fair of World Youth Day 2019, Panama From January 22-25, 2019, five RSCJ from the United States – Canada and Mexico Provinces (Mary Finlayson, Maricruz Trigueros, Conny Mateos, Lisa Buscher, Celia Salinas) participated in the vocation fair of World Youth Day. The theme for this year was “Follow Me.” We…
Dear Family of the Sacred Heart, Fifteen years ago, under the direction of then provincial Sister Kathleen Hughes and her provincial team, another journey began with the call to Sister Shirley Miller to open our yet to be formed mission advancement office. Shirley, in her 35 years of experience in Sacred Heart schools, in teaching,…